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Meaning of "languish in"
languish in: This phrase refers to a state of suffering, neglect, or inactivity. It is often used to describe someone or something being stuck in an unpleasant or unproductive situation
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They languish in poverty so we can live better.
Thousands of detainees languish in prison without charge.
Or languish in a cell for the rest of your life.
You can not languish in the past.
Or languish in an cell for the rest of your life.
People with disabilities will languish in dependency.
And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers.
Western economies will continue to languish in stagflation.
Thousands languish in prison and suffer appalling torture.
The rest are fated to languish in the dust.
How we languish in the deep and lifeless dungeons of ourselves.
Millions of refugees languish in horrible camps.
I languish in my own lonely sadness.
What soul is more likely to languish in restless disquiet.
Let us not languish in fear of further reprisals or violent reactions.
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In the meantime the detainees languish in legal limbo.
Cases can languish in the courts for years.
Many of the prisoners of conscience still languish in prison.
But leave him to languish in this muddy field.
Saudi women gear up and drive as activists languish in jail.
We can not languish in the past.
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of black and brown men languish in jails.
You will not languish in jail.
Some languish in prison simply because of their racial or cultural identity.
The men still languish in prison.
They languish in jail and we forget them there as long as possible.
Punjabi films continued to languish in this year also.
They languish in uncertainty.
He is a poet and loves to languish in words.
Kids just languish in comas and then they die.
Most of them continue to languish in obscurity.
Many languish in prison for months and years without a trial.
Countless more still languish in prison.
The complaint did not languish in a drawer and was never closed by an administrative authority.
But better adorn the road than languish in church.
That they languish in this world.
Surely you are not going to just let him languish in there forever.
I did not languish in relative obscurity.
You brave men did not deserve to languish in such ignominy.
Most of the rest languish in conditions that offer generally dismal prospects.
You are too young and beautiful to languish in a small village.
No one should languish in the kind of marginal destitution we commonly call poverty.
Thousands still languish in camps.
These children are raised by grandparents and aunts while their parents languish in prison.
Tens of thousands languish in government custody.
I could not allow my favorite ward and her friends to languish in prison.
He can not be suffered to languish in his own bloody bedding.
Tens of thousands of Qaddafi supporters continue to languish in jail.
Most survivors languish in prison.
It will languish in a quiet corner somewhere, and likely be forgotten.
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But you will languish without him
It is simply folly to let this issue languish
Love and languish for his sake